Dumb Quotes from Possibly Dumb People
Well, this is another entry in which was on Digg. In the poliical humor section of About.com, there are the top 25 quotes about Katrina. You probably already heard them all, but here they are anyway: http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/currentevents/a/katrinaquotes.htm?nl=1 .
Some of these quotes are probably just short burst of ***holeness, like quote number 2 by Barbara Bush. One actually I don't view as asinine as to be humorous, but a bad opinion none of the less.
But the Bush Administration takes the cake here.
From the first day of the 2000 presidential campaign, the Bush Administration has been more about PR then anything else. As some stories are comming out just how much PR is important (see here: http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/09/are_cronyism_an.html ), it shows that perception is more important then reality for this administration.
Katrina did something that nothing else has done, caught then entire administration's PR department (ok, the administration) with it's pants down. When they got their PR going, it was too late. The news media was waist deep (literally) in the story without any word from Bush or his administration.
Now with New Orleans nearly evacuated, the administration's PR is being shored up, but the damage has already been done. Pictures of the Superdome and all of the people who were sheltered there are already out.
Some of these quotes are probably just short burst of ***holeness, like quote number 2 by Barbara Bush. One actually I don't view as asinine as to be humorous, but a bad opinion none of the less.
But the Bush Administration takes the cake here.
From the first day of the 2000 presidential campaign, the Bush Administration has been more about PR then anything else. As some stories are comming out just how much PR is important (see here: http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2005/09/are_cronyism_an.html ), it shows that perception is more important then reality for this administration.
Katrina did something that nothing else has done, caught then entire administration's PR department (ok, the administration) with it's pants down. When they got their PR going, it was too late. The news media was waist deep (literally) in the story without any word from Bush or his administration.
Now with New Orleans nearly evacuated, the administration's PR is being shored up, but the damage has already been done. Pictures of the Superdome and all of the people who were sheltered there are already out.
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